Word: muste
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advice to "cut the nonsense and get to work." Mayor Walker, in full command, has placed his own man, John Francis Curry, at the head of Tammany Hall (TIME, May 6). Only one issue has really stirred the sluggish depths of New York's electorate-the price it must pay for a subway ride. Mayor Walker won that issue when the U. S. Supreme Court rejected a 7? fare plea, upheld the nickel (TiME, April 15). He has the support of the Hearst papers (American, Evening Journal). Criticism of him as a flibberty "do-nothing" by other, more respected...
...Four days later, Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty Rt. Hon. William Clive Bridgeman, resolute opponent of any reduction in John Bull's navy, received a copy of the Hoover plan, not from Ambassador Gibson but from the U. S. naval experts in Geneva. Eventually he must submit an opinion on it to the Committee of Imperial Defense, which will pass the report on to the Cabinet. Meanwhile the formula is conveniently shelved and thus kept out of the political campaigns that are swaying English public opinion in preparation for the coming General Parliamentary Election...
...year 1559, direct, businesslike Queen Elizabeth, decided that something should be done to stop the boys of St. Clement Danes choir school from wandering all over the city. The boys must stay within the boundaries of their own parish, said brisk Queen Bess, and they must learn where those boundaries lay in the following manner...
Each Ascension Day all the choir boys and a "party of substantial men" must go to St. Clement Danes Church and hear a sermon on the text: "Cursed be he that transgresseth the bounds and doles of his neighbor." Then, led by the rector, the choir boys and the "substantial men" must make a tour of the parish boundaries. In order that they shall never forget just where the boundaries are, the Virgin Queen decreed that the substantial men must soundly bump the heads of the choir boys against each boundary mark...
...exceedingly regrettable," said Politzerprasident Carl Zoergiebel in defense of his super-efficient policemen, "that bystanders were injured, but we must consider the viewpoint of the decent laborers who were not in the least connected with the uprising, and had the right to demand that the fire of insurrection be quenched as soon as possible." Another echo of Berlin's Bloody May Day was the reappearance in the news of Grigori Evseevich Zinoviev, famed "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," onetime Director of the Third International, imputed author of the defamed Zinoviev letters (later proved forgeries) which caused the downfall of Ramsay...